tongues wag

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People are gossiping. For example, Tongues wagged when another police car was parked in front of their house, or Their arrival in a stretch limousine set the neighbors' tongues wagging. This metaphoric expression transfers the rapid movement of the tongue to idle or indiscreet chatter. [Late 1500s]

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How to use tongues wag in a sentence

May they all stand in a puddle and stick their tongues in a Prius charge port.
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One wag joked that Liberty was the only university where football players and nerds got the same amount of sex.
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There were young men educated in foreign tongues, but few in carpentry or in mechanical or architectural drawing.
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Saddam especially liked to order tongues and ears cut off.
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“The first cover-up of the de Blasio administration,” one wag joked.
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Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!
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"I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.
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While a one-step was in full swing some would-be wag suddenly turned off all the lights.
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A distinguished wag about town says, the head coverings the ladies wear now-a-days, are barefaced false hoods.
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If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton